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Visceral_Mass wrote:
From BGG: Gamezone tweeted this about 10 minutes ago:

"Waiting for the KS green light. It may take a few hours. Keep calm and #heroquest"

It could take alot longer then that.... I think generally days is what they tell you it's going to take, although you can submit early and just not launch the project until your ready.

 Catyrpelius wrote:

Visceral_Mass wrote:
From BGG: Gamezone tweeted this about 10 minutes ago:

"Waiting for the KS green light. It may take a few hours. Keep calm and #heroquest"

It could take alot longer then that.... I think generally days is what they tell you it's going to take, although you can submit early and just not launch the project until your ready.

It can take days during the week, and they could have some issue that you will have to fix and make it take longer to get approval... plus its the weekend (nothing gets approved on Sat/Sun).

It took almost 2 weeks to get the EFT Kickstarter approved.

Man, first Shadows of Brimstone and now this.

Hopefully future game releases take note of how this all works. Giving a release time and then missing it is kind of a frustrating misstep to start off a campaign.

Doubly so if it inadvertently ends up with an unintended and highly inconvenient ending time.


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 Cyporiean wrote:
(nothing gets approved on Sat/Sun).

Either this has changed, or dozens of campaigns have been choosing to start on saturdays and sundays in advance, because I just scrolled down through the "newly launched" list and there are dozens of campaigns that started on November 16th and 17th.

 Forar wrote:
Man, first Shadows of Brimstone and now this.

Hopefully future game releases take note of how this all works. Giving a release time and then missing it is kind of a frustrating misstep to start off a campaign.

Doubly so if it inadvertently ends up with an unintended and highly inconvenient ending time.


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 Cyporiean wrote:
(nothing gets approved on Sat/Sun).

Either this has changed, or dozens of campaigns have been choosing to start on saturdays and sundays in advance, because I just scrolled down through the "newly launched" list and there are dozens of campaigns that started on November 16th and 17th.

A project doesn't get launched as soon as it's apporved by Kickstarter. Once it's approved the project creator has the ability to launch it whenever they'd like.

My Tables & Terrain Kickstarter was approved in 2 days but didn't launch it for a week, so there was time to do promotion. Itching for this to launch

I hope it doesn't get delayed too much or it might finish on Christmas Day.

 grak wrote:
I hope it doesn't get delayed too much or it might finish on Christmas Day.

I'd wager that the project doens't launch until monday at the earliest.

 Catyrpelius wrote:

 grak wrote:
I hope it doesn't get delayed too much or it might finish on Christmas Day.

I'd wager that the project doens't launch until monday at the earliest.

Oh, what are you wagering?

Just looking for context.

... maybe.

 Forar wrote:

 Catyrpelius wrote:

 grak wrote:
I hope it doesn't get delayed too much or it might finish on Christmas Day.

I'd wager that the project doens't launch until monday at the earliest.

Oh, what are you wagering?

Just looking for context.

... maybe.

Drinks on me at Templecon.

 Catyrpelius wrote:
Drinks on me at Templecon.

O.O

Well played.

9 hours on the road isn't likely for my crew, but if it were I'd certainly take that wager.

 Forar wrote:

 Catyrpelius wrote:
Drinks on me at Templecon.

O.O

Well played.

9 hours on the road isn't likely for my crew, but if it were I'd certainly take that wager.

Check airplane costs. I'm about 9 hours from Templecon, and it's cheaper for a flight than it is to drive.

Worth looking at, but if my group undertakes a con trip in 2014, it'll likely be Gen Con.

 Forar wrote:
Worth looking at, but if my group undertakes a con trip in 2014, it'll likely be Gen Con.

Canadians can't go to Gencon.

 Catyrpelius wrote:
Canadians can't go to Gencon.

:-(

Sigh. Not a great start

Gerinako wrote:
Sigh. Not a great start

I'm just hoping that the rest of the campaign goes better then their launch.

Rorkror has put up an English Language FAQ on Youtube while we wait.




EDIT: OK watched it through here's the bits that haven't been covered before:

There will be a miniatures only and furniture only pledge level

There will be KS exclusive content.

Hero Cards will have wheels so you can track wounds.

No old expansions will be remade but the game will get new expansions post KS.

Retail release aiming for December 2014 MSRP $100 for base game.

Every element of the game will be available to buy separately direct from Gamezone miniatures once it hits retail.

The sculpts are a mix of hand sculpts and 3D renders below is a sample of one of the Orcs (all sculpts will have different weapons/poses)

Thanks for sharing the notes. Didn't have the patience for a 20 minute vid to pick out what new tidbits might've shown up.

If there's one thing this campaign has showed me, there are a LOT of KS's I never even glance at. I mean, I knew that intellectually, but watching the crawl of various music and dance and film projects go by has been interesting and even a bit enlightening.

Today then yeah?

Gerinako wrote:
Today then yeah?

Who knows... If they didn't submit until Noon EST. then it still might be awaiting aproval. Your also assuming that it will get approved in the first go around.

Does anyone know what currency this project is going to be released in?

I find the lack of earlybird slots a bit worrying...

They allegedly submitted all the documents about a week ago.

KS can easily take a week (or two) to green light something based on campaigns I've previously been involved in

fingers crossed they aren't asked to make any major changes as that can slow things down even further

 Catyrpelius wrote:
I find the lack of earlybird slots a bit worrying...

Oh? Why is that?

After watching the gakstorm over the Shadows of Brimstone early birds, I'm glad they're not bothering.

I mean, a couple hundred slots at $5-10 off to boost the initial day wouldn't bother me, but the top tier is reportedly $150, so as long as the S&H are reasonable I can't see it breaking the bank.

 Forar wrote:

 Catyrpelius wrote:
I find the lack of earlybird slots a bit worrying...

Oh? Why is that?

After watching the gakstorm over the Shadows of Brimstone early birds, I'm glad they're not bothering.

I mean, a couple hundred slots at $5-10 off to boost the initial day wouldn't bother me, but the top tier is reportedly $150, so as long as the S&H are reasonable I can't see it breaking the bank.

The problem with the SoB early birds was that they never stopped adding them and just kept adding $25 to each level...

Early Bird slots preform a purpose, pulling in money on your opening day. The more money you bring in the longer you stay at the top of the page, the longer you stay at the top of the page the more money you bring in. Just so long as the early bird slots are limited you shouldn't hear anyone crying foul.

I just hope they did the work to be able to run the campaign in US $.

My personal problems with Early Birds are:

1) It encourages fake pledging. It always makes sense to pledge before reading a single thing about a project, and then drop out later. This ended up hurting Mars Attacks greatly - the top tier (giving an extra $25 of credit) was time-limited early in the campaign, meaning that toward the end the total ended up backsliding quite a way, as people pledge their "real" amounts.

2) It makes me less likely to pledge in the first place, if I miss a very good deal. If you have a $20+ difference between early bird and normal, I'm not viewing the price I pay as normal, I think of it as $20 'extra'.

I have the same opinion about substantial Kickstarter exclusives, but both tactics seem to be working just fine! It certainly doesn't cause me to lose faith in a project. Not getting your launch date correct, on the other hand...

Bioptic wrote:
My personal problems with Early Birds are:

1) It encourages fake pledging. It always makes sense to pledge before reading a single thing about a project, and then drop out later. This ended up hurting Mars Attacks greatly - the top tier (giving an extra $25 of credit) was time-limited early in the campaign, meaning that toward the end the total ended up backsliding quite a way, as people pledge their "real" amounts.

2) It makes me less likely to pledge in the first place, if I miss a very good deal. If you have a $20+ difference between early bird and normal, I'm not viewing the price I pay as normal, I think of it as $20 'extra'.

I have the same opinion about substantial Kickstarter exclusives, but both tactics seem to be working just fine! It certainly doesn't cause me to lose faith in a project. Not getting your launch date correct, on the other hand...

I think both CMoN and Reaper have the whole early bird thing done spot on. CMoN does one round of early birds that are roughly $10 cheaper then the main pledge, once they are gone their gone. Reaper had a neat method where the early bird slots didn't save you any money but they did determine in which month your order shipped.

I'm not sure that Mars Attacks is a great example of effective early bird use... There reward scheme was creative but I think it hurt them over the course of the campaign. Mars attacks had an average pledge amount of $203, Deadzone was $283, Dreadball was $287.

Latest news/rumour is it's been approved and goes live in 55 minutes - 22:00 Spanish time (21:00 GMT 16:00 EST)

Hope so. I have nothing better to do on this nice lazy Monday off of school!

Getting tired of sitting down to search and seeing nothing show up.

Maybe I'll just check Dakka first.

 DaveC wrote:
Latest news/rumour is it's been approved and goes live in 55 minutes - 22:00 Spanish time (21:00 GMT 16:00 EST)

Any word on what currency they are running in?

They've already posted the prices in dollars so I assume dollars on KS US.